This paper describes a digital theater installation called Buzz. Buzz consists of virtual actors who express the collective voice generated by weblogs (blogs). These actors find ...
Sara Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, David A. Shamma,...
Landmarks play crucial roles in human geographic knowledge. There has been much work focusing on the extraction of landmarks from geographic information systems (GIS) or 3D city mo...
Human communication involves a number of nonverbal cues that are seemingly unintentional, unconscious, and automatic—both in their production and perception—and convey rich in...
Automatic recognition of human affective states is still a largely unexplored and challenging topic. Even more issues arise when dealing with variable quality of the inputs or aim...
Real time rendering of animated crowds has many practical multimedia applications. The Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) is being increasingly employed to accelerate associated renderi...